“With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself everything—but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of every other object.”
2006-07-20 04:04:40 · 5 answers · asked by abn50599 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
That was Thomas Jefferson my friend.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of the consequences, you may promise yourself everything but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take place over every other object.” If we accept Jefferson’s premise, what should we do to pay attention to health?
TRIBUTION: THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., July 6, 1787.—The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, vol. 11, p. 558 (1955).
2006-07-20 04:09:13 · answer #1 · answered by Jason 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thomas Jefferson
From "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson," July 6, 1787.
2006-07-20 11:09:53 · answer #2 · answered by DanE 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Jefferson said it first ... I'm trying to find out when to whom and will add that if I can find it.
Update: Found it! It was in a letter to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., on July 6, 1787.
2006-07-20 11:07:51 · answer #3 · answered by flamingo_sandy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Jefferson
"God is a comedian playing for an audience too scared too laugh"
Voltaire
2006-07-20 11:12:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thomas Jefferson...but I don't know the rest.
Maybe try this
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1:74090494/Historical+Impressions,+1787+President+Thomas+Jefferson+United+States~R~(Brief+Article).html?refid=ency_botnm
for more info.
2006-07-20 11:08:35 · answer #5 · answered by cool girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋